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German-American Cath. Ethicist & theologian at Loyola University Chicago. https://schwabe.ch/hille-haker-towards-a-critical-political-ethics-978-3-7965-4147-6 Holding up the flag of hope for justice.

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We know this administration loves to lie, they claimed they’ve pulled out of Minneapolis but things have largely stayed the same if not gotten worse. They’re still bringing in more vehicles, the same ones we’ve seen them cause crashes with.

06.03.2026 20:04 👍 199 🔁 106 💬 10 📌 5

We are these kids. Our kids are these kids. Jesse Jackson. Dignity and human civil rights warrior.

06.03.2026 21:20 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

The daily horrors, the sadism, the depravity, only strengthens my resolve to oppose this sick regime with all my energy.

06.03.2026 21:10 👍 1122 🔁 208 💬 41 📌 7

🧵Feels like shouting into the void, but it is essential to note that the Trump/Rubio gutting of the State Department and blowtorching of US diplomatic capacity and credibility is an accelerant to this spiraling war and will seriously undercut US/allied efforts to pick up the pieces after. 1/

06.03.2026 16:25 👍 2658 🔁 861 💬 50 📌 101

“Democrats should revive the bi-partisan Russian sanctions bill in the Senate, and introduce an aid package for Ukraine to re-direct our focus to the war that is far more geopolitically important to America than our new Gulf War.”
Just one of many super-important recommendations to fight back now. 👇

06.03.2026 16:19 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Hello Germany - if you believe this war is illegal, then …. act and push the government to explain why they are with the Americans: without Ramstein, much less killing would be possible. You don’t help the people of Iran by bombing them.

05.03.2026 07:33 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Nicht Europas: aber der europäischen Union, die Menschenrechte vor nationale Interessen stellt. Fundamentale Werte als Grundlage ihres politischen Handels ansieht. Den Vereinten Nationen verpflichtet ist und an ihrer Reform mitarbeitet. Die keinem Krieg einfach so zustimmt. Ich schäme mich für Merz.

05.03.2026 03:54 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Trump's war on elections is hiding in plain sight False claims that foreign government interference caused him to lose in 2020 have been a staple of the diet of lies Trump feeds to his faithful.

Donald Trump is seeking to collect massive amounts of information — including personal and partisan voter data — at an unprecedented scale. He is trying to pressure AI companies into allowing unrestricted use of their powerful tools against American citizens. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/trum...

05.03.2026 03:40 👍 1685 🔁 802 💬 53 📌 29

Haha…. Panicking, GOP? The president is playing cat and mouse with you. Careful: you are the mice.
We catch cats.
“If] Trump endorses early, it saves everybody a lot of money, and … 10 weeks of a spirited campaign on our side that keeps us from spending time focusing on the Democrats,” Thune said.”

04.03.2026 23:35 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Ich habe seit langem zu Fragen der Gendiagnostik gearbeitet und mich hier mit dem neuen Profil des Neugeborenenscreenings beschäftigt 👇

04.03.2026 18:05 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Pope Leo XIV Called for Peace. MAGA Called Him a Marxist. After Leo's plea for diplomacy amid Iran strikes, the MAGA Catholic meltdown entered its most revealing chapter yet.

The pope is neither a Marxist nor Left. He is, however, Christian and catholic. Who would have thought he’d call for love and justice?! Not MAGA. 👇

open.substack.com/pub/lettersf...

02.03.2026 18:32 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

“War does not create a clean slate where suddenly we have to believe the absurd just because a leader says it. On the contrary, war provides the opportunity to see the core of the absurdity and the destruction that is being offered to us.” 👇

01.03.2026 17:55 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Trump’s real plan to never leave office Shortly after noon today, the President of the United States was finally seen again after days locked away in the White House since his disastrous State of the Union address. As he walked toward repor...

open.substack.com/pub/heatherd...

01.03.2026 07:49 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

The FBI being on high alert for terrorist actions is important right now.

Too bad they fired and gutted their counterterrorism capacity

01.03.2026 00:36 👍 26274 🔁 7099 💬 1279 📌 349

Following a white man to war because you disliked the sound of a black woman laughing will go down in American history as one of the dumbest acts of self-sabotage ever.

28.02.2026 07:57 👍 4416 🔁 1027 💬 106 📌 26
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Tell Congress: No War with Iran Trump has launched unauthorized military strikes on Iran, dragging the United States into yet another war without approval from Congress. This reckless escalation is putting U.S. servicemembers, Ameri...

Trump’s bombing of Iran is reckless and a direct threat to American and Iranian lives. Launching military strikes without congressional authorization or evidence of an imminent threat is not strength. It is an abuse of power.

Tell your Members of Congress to put an immediate stop to this war.

28.02.2026 12:55 👍 1850 🔁 738 💬 69 📌 31
NYT headline reporting "US and Israel strike Iran."

NYT headline reporting "US and Israel strike Iran."

Nothing like starting a war when the House has a vote on whether or not it is legal early next week.

28.02.2026 07:01 👍 578 🔁 199 💬 13 📌 6
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CBS News and CNN staffers fear ‘disaster’ as Paramount wins Warner Bros battle Decision by Netflix to walk away from takeover leaves workers anxious about possible merger of news networks

Reminder what is happening here.

“Alvaro Bedoya, a former commissioner of the Federal Trade Commission, expressed concern about the vast portfolio of assets that will be controlled by the Ellison family. “Block this rotten deal,””

www.theguardian.com/media/2026/f...

27.02.2026 18:30 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

Shame. Horror. Fury. The children’s cries followed me through the night. I told my students to watch this. But I want every American voter to see it. And if you then still vote for a single GOP person who supports the torturing of children in America - you are complicit in crimes against humanity.

27.02.2026 03:18 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

This should be a front-page scandal.

26.02.2026 22:04 👍 1801 🔁 507 💬 29 📌 9

Wenn das in Ungarn so weiter geht, wird's am 12. April keine freien Wahlen geben.

Meinte das der US-Außenminister, als er vor kurzem sagte: Ihr Erfolg ist unser Erfolg“?

Die 🇪🇺 darf hier nicht tatenlos zusehen.

26.02.2026 07:09 👍 237 🔁 89 💬 13 📌 3

Jahrelang haben wir in der Schule & in Filmen gelernt, wie die Nazis an die Macht kamen & wie man das verhindern hätte können.

Und jetzt sind die Nazis wieder da, Millionen protestieren, aber jetzt sei es falsch, ein Verbotsverfahren zu fordern oder radikal, sie nicht in Talkshows sehen zu wollen.

23.02.2026 06:49 👍 1271 🔁 357 💬 34 📌 6

And the EU stands by and let Hungary and Slovakia destroy the rest of the European Union’s respect for its own integrity. It’s so sad - I wish our leaders would lead and not just stand by when every night bombs go down on your cities, on civilians.
We still care. We still donate. We stand with you.

22.02.2026 03:23 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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‘We can see that courage’: Greece recovers long-lost photos of Nazis’ May Day executions Culture ministry hails ‘exceptional historical importance’ of prints that show resistance fighters’ final moments

People mock Germany’s memory culture often. But I have been to Greece and seen a creek once filled with the blood of men who were shot there. All men erased from a village. If you have seen pictures of the Nazis’ terror and mass murder, you will be forever haunted by the memory of these atrocities.

21.02.2026 18:37 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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‘Don’t go to the US – not with Trump in charge’: the UK tourist with a valid visa detained by ICE for six weeks Karen Newton was in America on the trip of a lifetime when she was shackled, transported and held for weeks on end. With tourism to the US under increasing strain, she says, ‘If it can happen to me, i...

A retired British primary school administrator with a British passport and a valid visa was shackled, chained and detained for six weeks by ICE

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

21.02.2026 06:54 👍 7241 🔁 4210 💬 250 📌 631
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The cover-up just never ends. Rest in peace, Ruben Ray Martinez.

20.02.2026 03:40 👍 19165 🔁 9011 💬 505 📌 391
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Türkei: Deutsche-Welle-Journalist wegen Präsidentenbeleidigung festgenommen Ein Journalist der Deutschen Welle ist in der türkischen Hauptstadt festgenommen worden. Die Behörden werfen ihm Beleidigung des Präsidenten und Verbreitung irreführender Informationen vor. Der Sender widerspricht vehement.

Ein Journalist der Deutschen Welle ist in der türkischen Hauptstadt festgenommen worden. Die Behörden werfen ihm Beleidigung des Präsidenten und Verbreitung irreführender Informationen vor. Der Sender widerspricht vehement.

20.02.2026 00:33 👍 26 🔁 13 💬 3 📌 1

Dieser Herr sollte auch lieber “aus dem (journalistischen) Verkehr gezogen” werden.

20.02.2026 06:20 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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After my ICE arrest, I learned one crucial way to respond to trauma. We can all take part | Rümeysa Öztürk I was detained for co-writing a op-ed about Gaza as a student at Tufts. My experience has only made me feel more connected to others facing oppression

ICE unlawfully arrested & detained Rümeysa Öztürk after she co-wrote a pro-Palestinian op-ed as a PhD student. Her recent op-ed reveals the trauma she faced.

Cases like this led the AAUP to sue the Trump admin in AAUP v. Rubio. We won the lawsuit & protections for non-citizen students & faculty.

19.02.2026 17:40 👍 39 🔁 21 💬 1 📌 0
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Court Rules in AAUP v Rubio: Trump Admin Violated First Amendment The AAUP and partners sued to block the Trump administration from carrying out large-scale arrests, detentions, and deportations of noncitizen students and faculty members for ideological reasons.

Read more about our victory in AAUP v. Rubio below. We are fighting in the courtroom and on the streets to ensure that non-citizen faculty & students like Rümeysa Öztürk receive the care and protection they deserve.

Let's organize to make sure that cases like Rümeysa Öztürk's never happen again.

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